Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu decided to build a Monster Realm to strengthen Great Qin ahead of the invasion, using the Demon Soul Art to erase the memories of those transformed into monsters. The monsters created a core for the realm, and Zhao Fu refined their loyalty by rewarding them and placing restrictions in their bodies.

• Hua Ye and Zhen Yi told Zhao Fu that the Demon Soul Art could erase people’s memories as they became monsters, making them obedient to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu went with Zhen Yi to Monster City, where Tamamo-no-Mae welcomed him and he announced plans to build the Monster Realm and name the hundred demons Demon Lords.
• Zhao Fu summoned the 362 monsters, gave them one hundred regions, and learned what materials and barriers the Monster Realm required.
• Zhao Fu chose a remote island on the Eastern Continent as the site, while the monsters spent more than three days condensing the Hundred Demons Bloodstone.
• Zhao Fu received the bloodstone, rewarded the monsters with a drop of his blood, and placed restrictions in their bodies.

Zhao Fu created the Monster Realm, whose blood sun and blood moon marked him with the recognition of the Sun Demon and Moon Demon. Testing the realm revealed that its blood qi could turn creatures into stronger, vicious monsters, and a black bull became the first black bull demon.

• Zhao Fu activated the Monster Grand Formation with the Hundred Demons Bloodstone, creating the Monster Realm with a blood sun and blood moon.
• Two figures, the Sun Demon and Moon Demon, entered Zhao Fu and merged with his silver dragon mark; Maple Leaf Hunt explained that they recognized Zhao Fu and granted him the power of monsters.
• Zhao Fu ordered wild beasts, criminals, and rebels into the Monster Realm to test its effects, where blood qi began eroding their bodies.
• A black bull became violent, killed and ate a leopard, and grew stronger while recovering rapidly from its wounds.
• Over three days, the black bull killed and ate a deer and two people before rising into a massive, partly humanoid black bull demon.

Zhao Fu discovered how quickly the Monster Realm could turn humans and beasts into powerful demons, and decided to use it to build Great Qin’s forces. He appointed the demons he had found as Demon Lords and began planning to send more than one hundred million people and beasts into the realm.

• Zhao Fu watched a black bull demon that had advanced rapidly, then used the Monster Realm’s restriction to force it to kneel before him.
• Zhao Fu witnessed a former human transform into a sixth-stage man-eating demon that retained speech and ordinary intelligence, and learned that it obeyed the same restriction.
• Zhao Fu decided to cultivate the Monster Realm and use its demons as soldiers, since they could grow stronger by consuming flesh and blood.
• Zhao Fu brought the demons to the Great Qin Imperial Palace, appointed them Demon Lords, and granted them Great Qin’s national power blessing and authority over the Monster Realm.
• Zhao Fu ordered an estimate of how many people and beasts could enter the realm; more than forty million people and fifty million beasts could be sent in, and he planned to bring demons out once they had transformed.

Zhao Fu decided to convert six captured King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals so they could command Yin Soldiers. After the conversion succeeded, Great Qin’s Yin Soldier limit rose from thirty million to ninety million, and Zhao Fu considered obtaining more King Seals to raise it further.

• Zhao Fu considered converting Great Qin’s preserved dead soldiers into Yin Soldiers but realized he needed seals capable of controlling them.
• After consulting the Golden Dragon, Zhao Fu learned that King Seals could become Ghost King Seals if their royal cities were reduced to capital cities.
• Zhao Fu spared Arthur Tina’s King Seal and destroyed six other royal cities, then brought their King Seals to the Yin Soldier conversion site.
• Zhao Fu activated the formation, and the six King Seals absorbed Nine Nether Yin energy and the Nine Nether will.
• The seals transformed into Nine Nether King Seals, each able to command ten million Yin Soldiers, raising Great Qin’s total limit to ninety million.

Zhao Fu considered how Great Qin could strengthen its forces before the Heavenly Domain Barrier disappeared and decided to replace some City Lord Seals with Official Seals so their power could be transferred to ferocious beasts. He ordered preparations for the change and turned to counting and cultivating Great Qin’s strongest candidates, including Illusion Flower Demons.

• Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin needed to grow stronger before the Heavenly Domain Barrier disappeared and discussed how to use its Yin soldiers and Nine Nether King Seals.
• Golden Dragon proposed merging City Lord Seals into ferocious beasts, and Zhao Fu considered the consequences of abolishing the seals.
• Golden Dragon suggested replacing City Lord Seals with Official Seals, and Zhao Fu decided to use the plan for ordinary cities while preserving important city and capital seals.
• Zhao Fu summoned his ministers to prepare for the abolition of selected City Lord Seals and ordered a tally of Flying Dragons and Corpse soul Commanders.
• Zhao Fu identified spiders, giant wolves, and Illusion Flower Demons as candidates for strengthened forces, then cultivated the flower demons in the Flower Domain.

Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s ferocious beast army and replaced City Lord Seals with official seals before using the remaining seals to strengthen its beasts. The chapter ended with Great Qin’s giant creatures and Illusion Flower Demons transformed into a formidable army.

• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s beast forces and calculated that 110,000 war beasts could become a major military trump card.
• Zhao Fu decreed the abolition of City Lord Seals and their replacement with Great Qin official seals, transforming cities across the human world.
• Zhao Fu allocated the remaining City Lord Seals among Wyverns, Corpse soul commanders, giant wolves, Corpse soul guards, and Illusion Flower Demons.
• Zhao Fu strengthened the Wyverns and Corpse soul forces, equipping the Wyverns with powerful rune dragon armor.
• Zhao Fu fused 30,000 City Lord Seals into the Illusion Flower Demons, enlarging them into towering creatures that stood in ranks before him.

Zhao Fu equipped Great Qin’s Illusion Flower Demons, Demon God Spiders, and giant wolves for battle as the army continued to grow. A seven-colored Heavenly Domain Barrier then appeared ahead of schedule, prompting Greenfield World, Half-Werewolf World, and Elf World to gather forces and prepare to invade the supposedly weak world within.

• Zhao Fu gave the Illusion Flower Demons rune armor with defensive shields to protect them on the battlefield.
• At Spider Domain, Elise summoned Demon God Spiders, which Zhao Fu empowered with the City Lord Seal and fitted with special armor.
• Zhao Fu empowered the giant wolves with the City Lord Seal and equipped them with wolf armor, leaving him confident in Great Qin’s growing forces.
• One month later, Apocalypse World fate surged into the human world and the Heavenly Domain Barrier appeared in its seven-colored true form.
• Greenfield World’s nations gathered about 2.6 billion soldiers to invade, believing the world within was weak and its City Lord Seals unusable.
• Half-Werewolf World and Elf World found connections to the world within and began gathering troops to seize territory alongside Greenfield World.

The surrounding powers dismissed the invasion of the newly arrived world as a certain defeat while focusing on the Lord of the Killing Sword and the mysterious Imperial Prince. They did not know both were Zhao Fu, the Great Qin Imperial Prince, who was about to reveal Great Qin to the world.

• Three worlds gathered six billion troops to attack the newly arrived world, and many observers expected it to be destroyed within months.
• The Dao Cultivation Sect Master ordered an investigation but doubted the besieged world had any connection to the Lord of the Killing Sword.
• The ruler of Bear Mountain Kingdom dismissed the invasion and said his kingdom could destroy the world in three days.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group and the Eight Dragon Origin Sect focused on the mysterious Imperial Prince, while the Eight Dragon Origin Sect prepared its Young Sect Master to apologize to him.
• Icefield Kingdom instructed Bing Qixue to befriend Zhao Fu and offer him whatever he wanted, and Bing Qixue reluctantly agreed to seek contact through the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group.
• The factions remained unaware that Zhao Fu was both the Lord of the Killing Sword and the mysterious Imperial Prince, and that he would soon announce the name of Great Qin.

Great Qin absorbed the human world's fortune and advanced into a first-rank duchy, greatly increasing Zhao Fu's power and the empire's military strength. With the invasion by three worlds approaching, Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin's forces and assigned leaders to confront the enemy kings.

• Great Qin merged its fortune with that of the human world and advanced into a first-rank duchy, while Zhao Fu gained strength but did not evolve further.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin's population, troops, territory, settlements, governors, legions, and strengthened Great Qin King Seal.
• Zhao Fu prepared for the invasion by outfitting his generals with rune equipment, planning new special legions, and considering Great Qin's monster army and other forces.
• Zhao Fu resolved to face Greenfield World's thirty kings with Arthur Tina and Ye Cang assisting him.
• Zhao Fu assigned Ge Nie, Zhao Sha, Zhao Mo, Elise, Demon Enchantress, and one hundred Sword-Wielding Demonification warriors to confront Elf World.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to face the three invading worlds, then met their armies in a head-on battle after their first assault was devastated by Great Qin's rune arrows. The invaders realized they were attacking a unified Duchy as Zhao Fu appeared before them as its King.

• Zhao Fu planned how his forces and the eight Sea Beast Kings would hold off the enemy Kings, and spent fifteen days strengthening his fighters and beasts.
• The three worlds attacked the human world from three directions as the seven-colored barrier shattered.
• Great Qin's rune arrows tore through the advancing soldiers, killing countless fighters and stopping the invasion's initial charge.
• Great Qin's soldiers unleashed another volley, which the invaders barely managed to block with a massive energy shield.
• The enemy Kings realized that Great Qin was a unified Duchy and that their forces had underestimated its strength.
• Zhao Fu appeared before the invaders in his Black Gold Dragon-Patterned Robe, ready to lead Great Qin in a head-on battle.

Great Qin turned back the Greenfield World’s invasion and routed its armies across all three fronts. After the Greenfield forces ordered a retreat, Zhao Fu launched attacks on all three worlds, alarming their neighbors.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to charge as Greenfield’s leaders hesitated after losing over a hundred million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu, Ye Cang, Arthur Tina, and Great Qin’s Generals engaged the enemy Kings and City Lords while armies clashed below.
• Great Qin’s dragons, giants, wolves, spiders, cavalry, and infantry overwhelmed the Greenfield army despite being outnumbered.
• Zhao Fu wielded the Nation-Stabilizing Pillar to destroy a King and blocked the other Kings’ attacks with Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• The Greenfield forces retreated across all three fronts, and Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to attack all three worlds.

After Great Qin defeated the invading armies of three worlds, nearby powers learned of its strength and watched it with alarm. Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s counterattack into Greenfield World, where its army clashed with defenders at Evergreen Continent’s walls.

• News of the three worlds’ defeat spread, drawing serious attention from the Demon Horn Empire, the Dao Cultivation Sect, the Bear Mountain Kingdom, the Eight Dragon Origin Sect, and the Icefield Kingdom.
• When word arrived that Great Qin had begun a counterattack, Zhao Fu led its generals and army into Greenfield World.
• The factions of Evergreen Continent gathered at their defensive walls to stop Great Qin before it could advance farther into the world.
• Zhao Fu charged into Greenfield World’s high-cultivation experts, and the fighting between him, the kings, and both sides’ generals erupted.
• Greenfield World’s defenders fired green spears from the wall, killing and wounding Great Qin’s ferocious beasts, which then attacked the wall with flames, freezing currents, shields, and claws.

Great Qin’s armies invaded the Half-Werewolf and Elf Worlds, overwhelming their defenders in fierce battles. Surrounded by thousands of enemies, Zhao Fu revealed the power of Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifacts and left the survivors fleeing in terror.

• Great Qin’s forces clashed with the Half-Werewolf army, and their beasts and cavalry broke through its ranks.
• Ge Nie, Zhao Mo, and the Sword-Wielding Demonifications fought the remaining Elf Kings while Great Qin’s forces breached the Elves’ tree wall.
• Zhao Fu withstood the siege of more than ten thousand enemies and several Kings behind a barrier formed by dozens of Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• Zhao Fu sent the Nation-Guarding Artifacts crashing down like meteors, killing several thousand people and driving the survivors to flee.

After defeating Greenfield, Zhao Fu led Great Qin into the Greenfield World, while Great Qin’s forces invaded the Half-Werewolf World and the Elf World as well. The neighboring worlds learned the name of the Great Qin Empire as its invasions spread panic.

• Zhao Fu celebrated Greenfield’s defeat, rallied his soldiers, and ordered them to invade the Greenfield World.
• The eight Sea Beast Kings and Great Qin’s monsters slaughtered the Half-Werewolf experts, breaking the army and advancing into the Half-Werewolf World.
• The remaining Half-Werewolf continents dispatched troops to stop Great Qin as survivors fled from the defeated continent.
• Zhao Mo, Elise, Ge Nie, and the Sword-Wielding Demonifications battled the Elf Kings until the elves retreated.
• Great Qin pursued the retreating elves and began invading the Elf World.
• News of the three defeats spread, and surrounding nations learned that the invading faction was the Great Qin Empire.

The Great Qin Empire’s invasion of three worlds drew the attention of Guti Domain’s major factions, while Zhao Fu’s armies swept across their continents. As the surrounding nations prepared to intervene, Zhao Fu faced the strongest king of Greenfield World and struck him with the Twelve Golden Men.

• The major factions of the Guti Domain took interest in Great Qin and sent people to investigate its rise.
• Zhao Fu’s armies advanced through Greenfield, Half-Werewolf, and Elf Worlds, capturing territory across all three.
• Nearby nations debated stopping Great Qin and ultimately gathered troops to intervene.
• The remaining forces of the three worlds assembled a final resistance, outnumbering Great Qin’s troops by three to one.
• Zhao Fu attacked the strongest king of Greenfield World with the Twelve Golden Men, cracking his defensive barrier and forcing him back.

Zhao Fu faced the leaders of Greenfield World, Half-Werewolf World, and Elf World as outside powers intervened and mediation began. He rejected their demands for Great Qin to withdraw, demanded territories and tribute instead, and left the negotiations tense after threatening the half-werewolf representative.

• Zhao Fu and the leaders of Greenfield World remained deadlocked while Great Qin's campaigns in Elf World and Half-Werewolf World also stalled.
• Representatives from several surrounding worlds arrived and offered to mediate, and Zhao Fu agreed that negotiation was the best course.
• At a great hall meeting, the elf woman, the half-werewolf man, and the Greenfield representative demanded that Great Qin withdraw and compensate their worlds.
• Zhao Fu rejected their demands, insisting the three worlds had started the war and must cede three more continents and pay Great Qin tribute.
• After the half-werewolf man angrily struck the table, Zhao Fu threatened to kill him and warned that Great Qin had not used its full strength.

Zhao Fu ended the war by securing three continents and compensation from the three worlds, then returned to Great Qin to assess the campaign’s gains and losses. The conflict remained unresolved, with both sides preparing for another war.

• The elven woman offered to cede the three occupied continents, and Zhao Fu demanded and received additional compensation for Great Qin’s losses.
• The three worlds accepted the terms, and the war ended with Great Qin officially recognized as a powerful nation while surrounding factions began gathering intelligence on it.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and left soldiers stationed on the conquered continents, while both sides quietly prepared for a possible future attack.
• Zhao Fu counted Great Qin’s casualties and noted that the eight Sea Beast Kings had fallen asleep after devouring many powerful figures and City Lord Hearts.
• Zhao Fu found that the monsters had gained great strength from the battle but worried that they might become difficult to control.
• Great Qin gained three continents, forty thousand cities, eighteen King Seals, expanded fate energy, and a population of nine billion.

After Great Qin’s victory, Zhao Fu addressed its military weaknesses by appointing six talented descendants of former rulers to wield Nation-Guarding Artifacts and celebrating the war’s end. He then continued securing the conquered continents and visited the newly formed God of Light, insisting that royal authority remain above divine authority.

• Zhao Fu considered Great Qin’s shortage of powerful experts and Nation-Guarding Artifacts, then asked Li Si to identify suitable inheritors who had submitted to Great Qin.
• Li Si reminded Zhao Fu to distribute rewards for the war, and Zhao Fu held a ceremony and feast to celebrate Great Qin’s victory.
• Zhao Fu appointed E Ling, Zhao Xiaolong, Rodas, Oniya, Yashi, and Wolf Cangya as inheritors and gave each a Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Zhao Fu dispatched troops to sweep the three conquered continents and ordered the Great Wall built to designate them as Great Qin’s territory.
• Zhao Fu visited the God of Light and accepted that the Bible could not be altered, while declaring that divine authority would never outrank royal authority in Great Qin.

Zhao Fu created a new Goddess of Life for Great Qin and began refining eighteen King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals. He learned about the seals’ powers and their potential to grant access to the Netherworld, territories, fortune, and ghostly transformations.

• Zhao Fu ordered a Temple of Life built and used divine wood and the blood of ten thousand female elf virgins to summon a new Goddess of Life, who pledged loyalty to Great Qin in exchange for her worshippers’ protection.
• Zhao Fu examined the Goddess of Life’s healing and recovery blessings and planned to nurture more gods for Great Qin’s future wars.
• Zhao Fu began converting eighteen King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals while Beiming Danqiu, Black and White Impermanence, and six nether generals stood with him.
• Black and White Impermanence and Beiming Danqiu explained that one hundred Nine Nether King Seals could open the gates to the Netherworld and that a seal could help its bearer claim territory and Netherworld fortune.
• Zhao Fu learned that a Nine Nether King Seal could grant Ghost King power or transform its bearer into a member of the Death Clan, but he dismissed the bloodline benefit because he already possessed the Six Paths of Reincarnation bloodline.

Zhao Fu strengthened his control over the Monster Realm by merging the Four Souls Jade into it, transforming it into the Four Soul Demon Realm. He left the realm with its monsters empowered and its barriers greatly reinforced.

• Zhao Fu refined more than a dozen King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals and appointed the strongest Yin generals, raising Great Qin’s Yin soldier limit to 270 million.
• Black Impermanence urged Zhao Fu to visit the Underworld, and he considered going someday to meet her and White Impermanence’s families.
• Zhao Fu entered the Monster Realm and blood-refined the Four Souls Jade to strengthen the realm and secure his control over its monsters.
• Zhao Fu sent the four jade pieces to the realm’s cardinal directions, where they summoned the figures of the four guardian beasts.
• Zhao Fu combined the four beams with the blood-red sun and moon, creating a five-colored sun that transformed the Monster Realm and strengthened its creatures and barriers.
• The four guardian beasts merged into the realm’s barriers, and Zhao Fu named the transformed realm the Four Soul Demon Realm.